After being closed for more than one month, Dreamworld Australia would reopen on Dec 10, Ardent Leisure, the owner of the theme park on Gold Coast said on Wednesday. The reopening came after regulators finished a mechanical and operational safety review of the park and the rides.

Besides the Doha-Adelaide route, Qatar Airways plans to add another non-stop flight to another Australian city. For 2017-18, the Middle Eastern carrier plans its fifth direct Australian destination by flying to Canberra from Doha.

Non-stop flights of Australian flag carrier are experiencing some turbulence. Besides the threat to the Perth-London direct flight due to problems with operators of Perth Airport, Qantas just withdrew its application with the US Department of Transportation to collaborate with American Airlines.

Since China is the largest trading partner of Australia, it is not surprising that Alibaba Cloud, which is part of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, chose Sydney as one of the four locations it opened a data centre. The presence of Alibaba Cloud, or Aliyun, in Australia would facilitate doing business with China for small and medium Australian enterprises because of Alibaba’s strength and scale in the Chinese market.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is blaming contractor IBM for the collapse of the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ (ABS) website on Aug 9. To cover the cost of the incident, IBM – which opened a $12-billion data centre in Melbourne and Sydney in 2014 – made a “very substantial” multimillion dollar settlement.

Rio Tinto (ASX: RIO) just sold its Alcan Aluminium UK business for US$55.8 million (A$753.3 million) to SIMEC, a commodity group in UK. The sale, which includes a smelter at Lochaber, Scotland, hydro-electric plants and land, end a 10-month auction after Rio placed it on the market in January.

The days of exciting but killer rides in theme parks are coming to an end. After Dreamworld Australia permanently closed its Thunder River Rapids ride, the Schlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas would demolish its killer 168-foot-tall The Verruckt slide.

Even if the tragedy that struck Dreamworld Australia in October – which killed four visitors – is still fresh in the memory of many Australians, there are still companies that want to build theme parks in the country. On Monday, a Chinese company said it would want to invest US$400 million (A$542 million) in Gold Coast to take advantage of the surge of Chinese tourists in Australia.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says the Friday fire at the Springvale branch of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) in Melbourne was not politically motivated. There was also no terrorism involved since what motivated the suspect to burn the bank branch was the state of his mental health and finances.

Miner Rio Tinto has alerted authorities in the UK and US and is contacting Australian authorities too after the company suspended Alan Davies, Energy and Minerals chief executive. His suspension was triggered by an investigation that Davies paid a consultant US$10.5 million (A$13.6 million) for advisory services on a project in Guinea.

Ardent Leisure, the parent company of Dreamworld Australia, says it would not only close permanently the Thunder River Rapid ride but destroy it completely. The permanent decommission is out of respect for the four people who died on Oct 25 when their raft crashed into another raft and flipped over.

Ardent Leisure Group CEO Deborah Thomas and her family received several death threats through social media days after the tragic Thunder River Rapids ride accident at the Dreamworld Australia theme park where four people died. The death threats came after an Australian newspaper published photos of the Point Piper apartment building in Sydney where she lives and the private school where her teenage son attends classes.

Half a million dollars made a lot of difference in settling who is the better bidder between the BBHO syndicate and the Australian Outback Beef (AOB) joint venture made up of Hancock Prospecting and Shanghai CRED. After AOB hiked on Wednesday its offer to $386.5 million from $365 million, it became higher than BBHO’s offer of $386 million.

The management of Dreamworld Australia announced on Wednesday that the theme park where four people died in an accident would reopen three days after the tragedy. However, the Thunder River Rapids ride would remain close.

The Australian Outback Beef (AOB) filed documents on Thursday with the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) increasing its offer to buy the S. Kidman cattle empire to $386.5 million. It is $500,000 higher than the $386 million offer of the BBHO syndicate.

Mining magnate Gina Rinehart’s young version in Australia is a pair of technology entrepreneurs who founded the software company Atlassian. BRW 2016 Young Rich List, released on Thursday by the Australian Financial Review, says Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar are the richest young Australians with a combined wealth of $4.68 billion.